Recap

Confederate soldiers are marching back from the Civil War. A battered Sergeant sees a woman sitting on the porch of her burned-out manor. He asks her for a glass of water and she invites him to go ahead. They talk about the devastation caused by the War and he asks to sit down for a bit and plays a song on his guitar. The woman, Lavinia, talks about her husband and admits that he was killed in the War. She clutches at her side in pain and cries at all the men going by, and begs the Sergeant to play louder so no one can hear her cry and she can't hear the sounds of the men on the road...